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    King Charles III

    Or Huw Edwards - to provide the required gravitas!
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    What are you drinking?

    Bit late to report this but had a couple of beers with a mate last night and - it being St Patrick's Day - I opted for Guinness
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    Donald J Trump

    Can't raise the mega-bond imposed on him in New York, because - basically -the handful of organisations that could step up and provide such a guarantee have all said no. The size of this bond was based on the declarations he made about his own wealth, so those not fond of Trump will likely find this hugely amusing because the case here revolves around something that's long been believed by his enemies (that he simply lies and cheats with regard to his actual wealth). This could eventually lead to massive seizure of his assets in New York. Trump's side will want a resolution sooner than later, if only because this case costs him $112,000 in interest every day. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68600093
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    Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

    A fair point - and a test of my observation ages ago that Sunak's the first PM in UK history to take the job thinking it's not the most significant thing he'd do in his working life. They'll lose, he'll eventually shrug it off as a case of him doing the best he could in an impossible situation and his mates in finance and banking will welcome him soon enough into international jobs with astronomical salaries. So, calling an early election to shut the festering rebels up likely doesn't scare him. John Major - by contrast - put his leadership on the line to quiet the "bastards" in the mid-nineties because (then and now) he gives a shit about the fate of the Conservative Party
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    Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

    Kemi Badenoch tells the plotters to shut it - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68595286 Or perhaps, makes a move to stifle them because she knows if they move now it's likely Penny Mordaunt's in there and Kemi's chances are busted as a result. In other news, here's a lovely 19th century engraving of a nest of vipers
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    Terrorists & Topical Terrorist Targets

    Aye, q/o fit for DDP purposes a shoo-in I'd say. Can't see it yet, but it's surely hours away at most
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    Dead Pop Stars

    She was once on the Modern Vampires tour, right? If she recovers, that fact might be funny one day.
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    Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

    His track record of staying connected to any political party isn't great and when he takes positions of power in parties the end result - on the evidence of every other time it's happened - is that those who worked with him complain he's difficult to say the least and often cuts deals with individuals that freeze out others and reduce the efficiency of the party concerned. Crudely, he's too busy being out for himself to be a party man. I'd say he's learned from that and for all the current courting of him he's not keen to get involved on the front line for anything other than enthronement in some way, which won't happen because Reform's best hope is to do what UKIP did years ago and force such a big vote in return so no power that it got people muttering about the voting system. And - frankly - Farage hasn't got the chops or public spirited side to be a constituency MP. So, yeah, hanging round, gurning for the cameras, shaking hands it is, then And maybe the Big Brother house for a fuck-tonne of cash in future where he can grumble about what a shite prime-minister Kier Starmer is.
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    Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

    Lively pre-election Sunday front pages today, Express suggesting Nigel Farage will step up to lead Reform UK and that'll knacker the Tories even more whilst the Mail discusses private Tory polling which indicates they're headig for their worst ever defeat. Thankfully our armed forces are so hollowed out Sunak doesn't really have the option of starting a war to boost his poll ratings!
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    Political Discussions And Ranting Thread

    To be fair, even this morning's Torygraph suggests right wing Tory MPs want Mordaunt..i.e., it'd be nice if it happened but even the parliamentary die-hard distcontents aren't that fucking stupid when it comes to making it happen. The only way this kicks off is if the 1922 have so many letters they have to call a confidence vote, there's not much suggestion that the MPs meeting have all put in letters.
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    Darwin Awards

    The latest Skeptoid episode is likely to be of interest to lovers of this thread - https://skeptoid.com/ If you're arriving too late to hear it (audio is only up for a week), here's the transcript: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4927
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    Alan Brazil

    65 in June - and given the state we've seen him in, he's already confounding the expectations of some dead poolers. Some of the most prominent hard drinkers (Oliver Reed, George Best) died well before Alan's current age (Bestie was 59, Reed 61)
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    Rishi Sunak

    i newspaper's front page today reporting that a former advisor is Sunak not to go abroad, because that's when coups happen within parties!
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    20. Derek Draper

    Are you telling me he played rugby in his final days?
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    20. Derek Draper

    Not exactly a surprise, but the last year of his life was filmed and ITVX have the documentary scheduled. There have already been trolls piling in with the predictable criticism. Given the abundance of AI and other trickery available to most of us these days the trolls could likely do something better than whinge, like maybe make their own copy of the documentary and edit it to give the main protagonists chipmunk voices, and throw in disco songs in the most intimate emotional moments, or summat! https://www.itv.com/watch/news/new-documentary-to-reveal-final-year-of-derek-drapers-life/1qz5qww
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